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I have two perspectives. First is that there’s a difference between financial independence and retiring. The latter, strictly in my opinion, is far more beneficial than retiring.

The second notion, and this is in gentle disagreement with Ms. Oakes, is the notion of your 30s and 40s being career highs. That’s a common viewpoint among her generation and I’m not here to tell her or anyone how to think. If they wish to believe that, they have that right.

But I will say that it’s largely not true. You’re only as old as you choose to be. We have example after example of people who’ve achieved amazing things well past 40. Lee Iacocca was 54 when Ford fired him and he went to Chrysler and created that incredible turnaround.

There have been others. Col Sanders was in his 60s, Ray Kroc was 50 something. Ronald Reagan and Pooe John Paul II were 69 and 58 respectively. There are tons of people who’ve done it and not just famous people like that.

I’ll also add, just for fun, that the Bills were down 35-3 in the third quarter of a playoff game once and came back to win.

So my point is this. Financial independence is an admirable goal and I wish you all the best on pursuing that. But I encourage you not to consign yourself to the now popular mindset where it’s all downhill after 40. Always look ahead, always strive for more.

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Last night I showed my fountain restoration project I've named "Project Oxford Valley". That seems weird on the surface so I thought I'd take a moment to clarify and also give you my personal thoughts on this topic.

I call it "Project Oxford Valley" as a tribute to a lost time and place. The name "Oxford Valley" is in reference to a shopping mall in Langhorne, PA called, well, Oxford Valley Mall.

My roots are from the Philly area and the Bucks County area is still special to me on a personal level. Oxford Valley Mall, as a Gen X child, was a place of wonder and magic. I didn't come from massive wealth so for me, a place like OVM was incredible.

For the record, OVM competed with two other malls nearby: Neshaminy Mall in Bensalem and Quaker Bridge Mall in the Princeton, NJ area. The former, along with OVM, are dying and the end is not far away. The latter is still doing OK.

As a youngster, Neshaminy was just OK but a trip to OVM was the best thing ever. And what made it so special? The fountains. OVM was once a fountain city with huge geysers, intricate little bridges over flowing lazy river-type ponds, oh I was always tantalized by them. And they always made the air smell so fresh and the sound was so incredible.

But that's all gone now and I'll be honest with you. I'm very leery of nostalgia and find far too many on this app are irresponsible with it. The past should never be universally considered better.

But there are times I think certain parts of it were. Don't get me wrong, Amazon and Netflix are amazing examples of technology and efficiency. I do feel, however, that what we've gained from institutions like that do not come without cost.

A place like OVM was part of American identity and represented a peak time in our culture. We haven't maintained or fought hard enough for it and it's largely being lost.

So, this fountain In restoring? I can't go back in time but my goal is to build something that is a small tribute to what OVM meant to not only myself but anyone of a certain generation.

I miss my fountains

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@AngelaBelcamino That’s the position of Ronald Reagan

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@NikkiNic9384 @the_transit_guy https://t.co/A51S1XPKdJ

Spend just a little more and you’ll be amazed. These are classics

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I have a passion for fixing things. This abandoned fountain in the yard looked very sad.

But I think I have it on the comeback trail

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@NikkiNic9384 Because the average soccer stadium in places like the UK are like this:

https://t.co/vK3cVa9faV

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@J_Villa75 @Coach_JayGruden OK Homie, let’s see him at WR and go over the middle and take a full-on hit from a free safety

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Again this is provincialism. The "rooting" you refer to is simply fans of a sport understanding the drought factor. Both Eagles titles had similar outpouring from beyond their home market for specific reasons. The first one was for reasons similar to the Knicks. The second one was a backlash towards the Chiefs and Taylor Swift. Nationally more people supported the Eagles than KC. And if you want to know some hard facts, I was at Super Bowl LIX. There were 65K fans in attendance and an estimated 40K were Eagles fans. How about this? Enjoy the Knicks' title as a NY area fan and not tell everyone else how to think?

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And another thing...this is the problem with New York across a whole swath of society. It's partially why we have such division, not unity. New York is the epicenter of provincial putzes. They're notorious for viewing the world as New York and everywhere else is an undeveloped third world hell hole. To be fair, some aspects of Philly can sometimes have this attitude but never to that extreme. My Dad, God rest his soul, was a Philly native but highly educated, a Navy officer, and so forth. He used to jokingly call Philly "McShitsville" and a few other colorful terms. He loved his hometown but always taught us that the world is more than one area. Several years back when I was in AZ for business and saw the whole state, Dad said to me, "See! Now do you understand why I call Philly "McShitsville"? There's a lot of other places out there". New Yorkers are the WORST for this attitude. No other region is more extreme in this way of thinking. None. New York City is a fascinating place, I have no ill will towards it. But it isn't America, it's a small part of it.

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@jberardi1996 @NikkiNic9384 @MikeSielski I'll add Upstate in the Coal Regions, like Wilkes-Barre/Scranton, and certainly Lebanon, Lancaster, and Harrisburg as well

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Like which fanbases? There's expats all over the place. Down here in the DC area there are loads of fans from Philly, NY, and a ton of Pittsburgh people. I find this claim really hard to believe. If you're talking Yankees, Mets, Giants, and Jets, OK. But don't give me this nonsense that people in DC or Miami are gaga over the Knicks. Not happening. I can appreciate their accomplishment in that it's been over half a century since the last one, but that doesn't make me a fan

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Here's another fun fact about stadia in England and other countries. Terraces. They're banned now in England above a certain level of sports due to a big fatality where people were crushed to death. But historically many stadiums had little to no seating. You just stood on glorified steps.

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I get why they're saying this. It's relative to their own areas. Just looking at the Premier League, outside of the Big Four teams, the rest play in either smaller venues of about 30,000 or really old dumps. Luton Town, who made a brief appearance in the EPL a couple of years ago, is legendary for their stadium, which has one entrance that cuts through the back yards of a couple of townhouses.

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The Knicks certainly united the fanbase in their core market, but to claim that Philadelphia doesn't unite in theirs is hogwash. Alternatively, anyone claiming any Philly sports team unites people in NY is clearly smoking something. Different market altogether. Additionally, to claim the Knicks win is somehow greater than what Philly has done with their teams or KC or anywhere else is ridiculous. It's simply a sports championship to be enjoyed by people in NY, Northern NJ, and parts of CT. It's not a national moment.

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@NikkiNic9384 @BillWiIdin Chicago and Kansas City would like a word...

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You don’t know what you’re taking about. Their fan support runs from Harrisburg to Southern NJ, most of Delaware, down to Cape May. Even parts of Northern Maryland align with it like Cecil County.

Wherever you’re getting your information from, it’s utter nonsense. Philadelphia is the preeminent NFL fanbase. Utter nonsense

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I don’t get what this man’s point is. Nothing he’s said here has anything to do with anything. As far as injuries to other team’s players? That’s been a factor in sports every year for eons.

The other thing he doesn’t grasp is the paper vs actual champions. NFL maybe less so, but the other big three tend to have championship teams that are playing their best at the end of the season and into the playoffs. Sure, an argument can be made maybe that other teams might have been more talented than the Knicks, but it was the Knicks who played their best right now. That’s what counts. Not this “That team is had injuries” or “Bad refereeing”.

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A lot of what you hear is myth about the game. Our problem here in the US is that we don't have strong rivalries. The Cosmos had the "it" factor but the NASL didn't make money. The game itself is very good. The problem are the fans and the culture of the sport in general. They're an arrogant and elitist bunch.

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@JamdownAve @NikkiNic9384 That too, I agree. Timing was key here. The sport was played in varying forms for centuries but the modern game was organized in the late 1800s. The US saw a lot of European immigration around the turn of the century and I've found that baseball beat it out.